Reuters:Latvia: Passport-free future to blow dust from Old Europe - by Gunta Gasuna
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Latvia: Passport-free future to blow dust from Old Europe - by Gunta Gasuna
Optimists call it the end of the Iron Curtain. Pessimists fear a "Fortress Europe" or a wave of illegal immigration from December 21, when passports will be checked at fewer European borders. When the European Union's passport-free Schengen zone expands to include nine mostly former communist states, travellers in the EU will not need a passport to cross land and sea borders in an area about one-third the size of the United States, from Narva in Estonia to Narbonne in France. From next March the extended zone will also include airports in a total of 24 European countries, where more than 400 million people live.
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